EPISODE · Apr 18, 2014 · 16 MIN
Matt Wray on the ‘Suicide Belt’
from Office Hours · host Scott Demuth
This week we are joined by Matt Wray, a professor at Temple University, where he teaches sociology of race, culture, and health. Matt has researched suicide rates in Las Vegas, the city with the highest metropolitan suicide rate in the U.S. He is currently at work on a book about the “Suicide Belt” in the […]
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This week we are joined by Matt Wray [1], a professor at Temple University, where he teaches sociology of race, culture, and health. Matt has researched suicide rates in Las Vegas [2], the city with the highest metropolitan suicide rate in the U.S. He is currently at work on a book about the “Suicide Belt” in the American West. In addition to his work on suicide, Matt has written extensively on the topic of whiteness [3] and white identity [4]. We discuss Matt’s current work on the Suicide Belt and explore the contributions sociologists can make to the study of suicide. Download Office Hours #89 [5] [1] http://www.temple.edu/sociology/wray/ [2] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.002 [3] http://www.amazon.com/Not-Quite-White-Boundaries-Whiteness/dp/0822338734 [4] http://www.amazon.com/White-Trash-Race-Class-America/dp/0415916925/ [5] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH89_Wray.mp3
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